(a.) Inclined to war or contention; warlike; pugnacious.
Example Sentences:
(1) And increasingly, according to those familiar with how Saif and his brother Saadi are thinking, Gaddafi's sons have become aware that they have a problem that they need to find a way out of – despite Saif's bellicose language.
(2) Privately, Chinese diplomats are alarmed and critical about North Korea's bellicosity.
(3) The former deputy prime minister, Nick Clegg, said: “Blaming foreigners and an unsubstantiated European plot for her own government’s shortcomings is more worthy of [Turkish president Recep Tayyip] Erdoğan than Downing Street.” Conservative strategists believe May’s bellicose performance outside No 10 will have played well with voters who are keen to see Britain take an assertive approach to the talks.
(4) I worry, however, that China will become more bellicose in the wake of this decision and flex its military muscles more visibly, prompting the US to do the same, which could lead to heightened tensions in the region.
(5) "If Obama allows the Israeli agenda on Iran to become America's, his outreach is dead... Netanyahu's bellicosity (towards Iran) is as unrelenting as his desire to distract attention from stillborn Palestine."
(6) He's the head of a crew of rappers including Ross, Meek Mill and Wale, named Maybach Music Group after Mercedes's notoriously expensive car, the man who likes to be called "the Boss" – pronounced "Bawse" – and the rapper who since his 2006 breakthrough hit Hustlin' has used his signature bellicose baritone to tell stories of drug dealing and murder that make Tony Montana sound like Alfie Moon.
(7) Josh Frydenberg says grand mufti had 'graphic failure' of leadership Read more At this point, a number of his colleagues – acting out of opportunism, bellicosity, or simple ignorance – chimed in.
(8) The main pillars of Trump’s political and economic project are: the deconstruction of the regulatory state; a full‑bore attack on the welfare state and social services (rationalised, in part, through bellicose racial fearmongering and attacks on women for exercising their rights); the unleashing of a domestic fossil-fuel frenzy (which requires the sweeping aside of climate science and the gagging of large parts of the government bureaucracy); and a civilisational war against immigrants and “radical Islamic terrorism” (with ever expanding domestic and foreign theatres).
(9) The deepening polarisation is intensified by Erdogan's bellicose rhetoric.
(10) In characteristically bellicose language, Putin accused Ukraine of playing a dangerous game.”We obviously will not let such things slide by,” the Russian president said on Wednesday.
(11) Pyongyang often issues bellicose warnings when military manoeuvres are due in the area.
(12) But the White House National Security Council told reporters the ICBM launch was “previously notified and routine,” not cause for a new round of alarm over Russian bellicosity.
(13) Met by a government resolute in its position, the protests grew steadily larger, and more bellicose.
(14) Probably not, even though bellicosity can be dangerous.
(15) Her voice, a bellicose yawn, somehow both boring and boring – I could ignore the content but the intent drilled its way in.
(16) The Soviet response was silence, followed by bellicose denial, followed by efforts to derail the international investigation.
(17) In past heated exchanges – before I was overpowered by the bellicose booming voice of a white male ally or bro, and I checked out – what was revealed in that exchange is how many people view race and class as separate things in American society.
(18) Columnist Matthew Parris, a friend of Gove, warned in the Times last week that the minister appears to have "a secret feral side", aided and abetted by "a bellicose claque of advisers, the education secretary's virtual motorcade".
(19) The bishop of Birmingham, David Urquhart, together with Labour MPs Liam Byrne and Shabana Mahmood, whose constituents have been embroiled in the controversy, are forming a pan-religious group in response to what they consider increasingly bellicose rhetoric by ministers over the so-called Trojan Horse affair.
(20) While stressing that he believes controls on migration are needed, he also said that immigration had great advantages for the UK and that critics of recent immigration trends had made their case in a "bellicose and strident tone".
Warlike
Definition:
(a.) Fit for war; disposed for war; as, a warlike state; a warlike disposition.
(a.) Belonging or relating to war; military; martial.
Example Sentences:
(1) You fight a dirty war with innovations.” Rawat expressed frustration about the pressures faced by his soldiers, required to police their own citizens in an environment the Indian government has described as “warlike”.
(2) There is relief in South Korea that people who have heard little or nothing about their loved ones will at last meet, and that the North's threats and warlike rhetoric have died down, but there is also wariness and deep mistrust.
(3) This exemption is granted when an individual dies while serving in the armed forces, provided they were either “on active service against an enemy” or “on other service of a warlike nature, or which, in the opinion of the Treasury, involved the same risks as service of a warlike nature”.
(4) Consecutive memorial directors have referred to the institution's 1980 Act, stipulating that they must tell the story of "wars and war-like operations in which Australians have been on active service, including the events leading up to, and the aftermath of, such wars and warlike operations".
(5) The story of the United Kingdom, the story that should shape the current debate but hasn’t thus far, is one of relentless English expansion – sometimes peaceful and sometimes warlike – at the expense of the non-English nations of the Britannic archipelago.
(6) "It seems a shame to deprive ordinary people of that just because the maharishi considers our government bellicose and warlike."
(7) The G8 statement was released amid the first signs that all parties were edging away from the warlike rhetoric of recent weeks.
(8) Jesus Camp is "a sarcastic documentary that paints evangelical, fundamentalist, charismatic, and politically concerned Christians as very shrill, warlike and dangerous," a critic wrote on the Christian website MovieGuide.org .
(9) The weak-willed Henry VI is markedly different from his father, grandfather, and son who were all valiant, warlike, and brave.
(10) Was Lieutenant James Patrick killed during “warlike” service, or did his death occur during a “routine” training exercise?
(11) The announcement comes as tensions eased after weeks of warlike threats between North and South Korea, including vows of nuclear strikes from the North.
(12) It’s a film which playfully toyed with the perceived homoeroticism of the male-warrior culture: depicting the Spartans as brave, warlike and noble, but the Persians as in thrall to an effeminate and contemptible king: Xerxes.
(13) Up to 100 people from two tribes of warlike Huaorani Indians live there in voluntary isolation and, within a kilometre of where we are standing, it has been estimated, live 150 frog, 120 reptile, 600 bird and 200 mammal species, including nearly 100 species of bat.
(14) Pirgos Mavromichali, Limeni Pirgos Mavromichali, Limeni The "Tower of Mavromichali" is the old family stronghold of Petrobey Mavromichalis (or Black Michael) one of the semi-autonomous rulers of the warlike Mani region during Turkish occupation in the 19th century.
(15) He came into office pledging to seek a diplomatic deal with Iran over its nuclear programme, an approach that contrasted with the warlike rhetoric of the Bush administration.
(16) "I wouldn't say we're stupid, but we Chechens are more warlike than other nations, and have allowed our warrior instinct and ourselves to be exploited."
(17) On its website, the SPVA explains that if a serving or former member of the armed forces dies from – or their death can be shown to have been "hastened by" – an injury sustained or disease contracted on active service against the enemy "or other service of a warlike nature" (such as operations against hostile forces in peace time or anti-terrorist operations), a complete exemption from inheritance tax can be granted to their estate under the provisions of section 154 of the Inheritance Tax Act 1984.
(18) Peter Ramsauer, chairman of the German parliament’s economics committee, also talked about the “economic warlike traits” of the US approach.
(19) the existence of the peaceful and the warlike ege as 'doubles'), producing a multiple personality in which the formation of the ego ideal, moulded by themes of terror, threatens to exert a transgenerational influence owing to a superego identification with the Nazi aspects of the father, while the 'borrowed guilt' from the father corresponds to a melancholic identification; the regressive concretization in the form of a transitory delusion also belongs to the context of the latter.
(20) The concept of coping is firmly embedded in warlike connotations.